Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-06-30
NEHSF NOTES.


1t will be 24-years ago on Monday since
the surrender of Vicksburg.
Three big warehouses and 5000 hhls. of
tobacco burned louisville.
Ex-Chief Justice J. L. Bartol of the Md. |
appeals court is dead, aged 10.
tomorrow VII be the anniversary of the
of Charlie Ross in IA.
Daniel Pratt. wn all over the L. S. as
The Great Anne. an Traveller, is dead.
R. Belcher of Haymarket, Prince Will
liam county, Va, has patented fire escape
The Rerie,e and SIN offices and E. H.
Stewards mattress factory at Roanoake are
burned
Representative Freeman Clarke Of n.
Y. who was Lincoln's currency controller
is dead.
Johnnie Wise will "shoot off his mouth"
in independence So, Philadelphia, next
Monday.
w. w. Corcoran changed his plans and
went to Deer Park instead of the White
Father McNanus of st. Johns church,
Baltimore. has been made Monsignore OF
the Catholic church.
Patrick Flevin, young plumber OF
Staunton was killed recently in Washing
ton by falling from a roof.
Mrs. Jacobus, the nurse of President
Cleveland, died a few days ago at Caldwell,
y. J. She was born in 1905.
Gen. James Speed, Lincoln's attorney
general. died last Saturday out near Louis
Vile aged rs, after a long illness.
Dr. Robt. y. Mills formerly of Green
county, Va, has been arrested for fraudu-
lently obtaining $4,000 pension money
Elder the artist, has nearly completed
fine portrait of Hon. Jefferson Davis, the
last. Mr.. Davis says, for which he will ever
sit.
Robt Garrett, F. J. Harrison and others
have bought Viewers Cave and will build
a hotel and Il t mile stem from the Is. u Us
line.
Chief J. G. Kueef of Roanoke is elected
president Virginia Firemens Association
and J. NJ. Smith of that place yice-presl-
dent.
II is said the Shenandoah Valley Rail
road has been merged into the Norfolk and
Western Railroad and new company Will
be formed.
Mrs. Cleveland returned to Washington
last Saturday She has been chosen 4 truS-
tee of Wells college-her alma mater-at
Aurora, \. y.
Over Sc .0OO, 600 of Southern railway bonds
have been subscribed for in the New York
market within the last fortnight for Euro
pean investors.
They are looking for ex-Goy. Holidays
arrival at Winchester gentleman hav-
ing got into Frisco last Friday after cir
cult OF the globe.
Frank Trigg aged II, manager Cbes. and
Ohio II. IL. at Washington since 70, suicl-
cided at Niagara Falls Sunday week He
was formerly of the District bar. Leaves
a widow and little boy.
Miss Mabele, d lighter of Mr.. Benz. Ber-
nv the Baltimore tea merchant, was married
recently to Thos. c. Thompson, son of Car
olina's ex-Governor-Assstant Secretary
Thompson of the Treasury.
The y. Y. and Harlem r. r. Co. have
sold the big Madison Square Garden in New
York to Jas. T. Woodward for one million
dollars. The place will be turned into an
immense amusement resort
A bad collision between the New York
and Washington express trains occurred at
Havre.d Grace, Md, Tuesday week. b.
\. Baker. ]. NJ. Wharton and Rev. II.
Smith, of Baltimore, injured.
The Penn. r. r. recently ran mail train,
on perfect time, from Altoona to Pittsburg
without q stick of wood or a scuttle of coal
or fuel Steam was generated solely by
crude petroleum-its first test on any road
west OF the Alleghenies.
Gen. T. L. Rosser, the exConied., lives
quite elegantly at Charlottesville. He made
a big pile engineering for the Northern Pa
cifc and in speculation. Those letters a
cainst Sheridan were, he says, suggested by
a valley woman's appeal.
Prof. Crouch of Baltimore, who wrote
kathleen Mavourneen' has been made
Fellow of the London Society of Letters,
Arts and Science. He is 81 and his fourth
wife. whom he married in II, is u. The
Professor raised altogether p children.
Craig Tollyer, the desperate, who has
kept Rowan county, Kentucky, in a state of
terror for several years, was killed by
sheriGs posse at Morehead yesterday. With
him fell his two brothers, Bud and Jay Toll
liver, and Hiram Cooper, all desperadoes.
Mrs. Anne Raush of Letart, Va, lately
passed her Tooth birthday and Is yet quite
chipper-lkc. She was married at 10 and
has had IS children OF whom survive-the
eldest aged 49, Her senior grandchild Is
6S. She has % great great grand children.
4 heavy rain and wind storm at and a.
round Roanoke on Tuesday week. Light
ming struck the Fox Mt. iron mine on the
:. Y. road. killing one man and injuring
several At Salem the planning mill and
canning house were wrecked, houses UNI
rooted, etc.
Referring to the re-dedication of 4 church
in Manchester the Richmoad Christian i'd
rocqfc says Bishop a. w. Wilson reopen
ed the house last Sabbath with sermon of
robust cloquencc. A dense congregation
heard this master of assemblies
Rev. Dr. John -. Blackwell, of the Vir-
ginia Conference, NJ. +. Church, South,